Love Company : infantry combat against the Japanese, World War II : Leyte and Okinawa : Company L, 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division
Leyte and Okinawa: Company L, 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division
Donald O. Dencker
ISBN: | 9780897452571 |
Publisher: | Sunflower Univ Pr |
Published: | 1 April, 2002 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
Love Company : infantry combat against the Japanese, World War II : Leyte and Okinawa : Company L, 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division
Leyte and Okinawa: Company L, 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division
Donald O. Dencker
Excerpt from the Introduction: Love Company is a tribute to the American foot soldier of World War II - and subsequent wars - the men of the Rifle Companies of the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps. These men, God bless them, who directly faced the enemy, did the most bleeding and dying , and were the cornerstone of our victory over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. I served in one of these Rifle Companies - Company L, 382nd Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division. I called the 96th Division "Everyman's Army" because it was composed of men from all over the United States and of every social status. It was a draftee division, and was led at the battalion, company, and platoon levels by men who prior to World War II were not professional soldiers, but civilians.
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